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FAYETTEVILLE, NC (WNCN) — A North Carolina mother is charged with murder in the death of her 9-year-old son, who was found unresponsive in a hotel room and later died Saturday morning, police say.

Crystal M. Matthews, 35, of the 6000 block of Whitemoss Court in Fayetteville is the biological mother of Zamarie Chance, who died at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center, Fayetteville police said in a news release.